General Landscape Uses: Specimen tree, shade tree, container plant

Ecological Restoration Notes: Supporting biodiversity via canopy cover and fig production

Description: Evergreen tree

Dimensions: Height 50 – 100 ft.

Growth Rate: Moderate to fast

Native Range: Asia

Native Habitats: Tropical and subtropical forests, open woodlands, riverbanks, monsoon forests

Soils: Moist but well-drained, Acidic, sandy or loamy

Nutritional Requirements: Moderate

Salt Water Tolerance: Low

Salt Wind Tolerance: Low

Drought Tolerance: Moderate to high

Light Requirements: Part Sun

Flower Color: Pale cream to white

Flower Characteristics: Internal, hidden inside the fruit

Flowering Season: Irregular; occurs when pollinator is present and climate conditions are favorable (mostly in native range)

Fruit: Syconium, green ripening to purple

Wildlife and Ecology: Fruit is important to birds and mammals

Horticultural Notes: Propagated by cuttings, air layering

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